Button-hook.



J. JOHNSON. BUTTON HOOK.. APPLIOATION FILED AUG. 1o, 1910.

986,989.v Patented Mar. 14, 1911.

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Application filed August 10, 1910. Serial No. 576,488.

To all whom it may concern.

- Be it known that l, JOSEPH citizen ofthe United States, QuartZsit-e, in the county JOHNSON, a residing at ful Improvements in Button-Hoks,of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in button hooks or fasteners and has for an object to provide a device by which shoes or the like may be very quickly and easily fastened with littleorno strain which might tend to' either loosen the buttons or stretch and enlarge the button holes.

Another objectof this invention is to constructja button fastener comprising a hooked arm adapted to engage a button-hole and a lever secured thereto and provided with a claw foot adapted to engage a button and be so manipulated as' to force the button through the button-hole. f

A further object is the provision of a button hook consisting of but few parts which are so simple in construction that the device as a wholecan'be manufactured at a minimum cost.

.In order to accomplish these desiderata, thisinvention consists 1n certain novel features of: construction, combinations 1rnd arrangementsl of parts to be hereinafter more fully de` scribed, claimed and illustrated in the accompanying-drawing in which:

Figure 1 is a perspectiveviewv of my ini- .proved button hook. Figs. 2, 3, and t illusl trate three' positions assumed by my imprwoved buttoner during its ope-ration.

i Referring toy the drawing by characters of reference, the numeral l designates generally my improved button fastener illustrating its application to a fragment of a garment 2 or other article to be fastened by mearisfof buttons. I

My improved device comprises a hook 3 formed upon the outer terminal of an arm fi the opposite endoffwhich is flattened as at v5 and provided with a slot 6 the inner end of whichv is" Offset as at 7 for a hereinafter through the' purpose to be disclosed. A pin 8 extends slot 6 and connects the arm 5 of Yuma and Terri-` tory of Arizona, have invented new and usewith a. lever 9 at the lower extremity of which is formed a claw or other suitable coni trivance l0 for grasping a button. The o posite end of the lever 9 is bent to provi e a hand grip 11 which is preferably aper- F ture'd to provide a means for suspending the device when it is not in use.

fThe operation of the button4 hook is as follows: The pin 8 is placed in the 1oifset end 7 of the slot 6, and the button hook l is grasped at this point between the index finger and thumb with the arm 4 and hook 3 resting in the palm ofthe hand. A slight pressure upon the outer end of the iiattened portion 5 of-the arm 4 with the second finger holds the pin 8 in engagement with the olfset 7 While the hook 3 is extended through claw l0 engaged4 with the button asillustrated in F1g.-2., The hand grip 11 is then pushed downward to a substantially horizontal position and manifestly the button will be forced through the button hole as `clearly disclosed in Fig. 3. After thebutton 1'is`forced through the but-ton' hole a sli ht pressure upon thel top of the Hattened en 5 of the arm 4 releases 'the pin 8 from oset4 7 and allows it to slidealong the slotJ '6 lessen- `ing the tension upon the hook 3 and permit- Havin thus fully described this l.invention what is c aimed as new is as follows: l

formed luponjone end of the arm and adapted to grasp a button-hole the opposite end o the JOSEPH JOHNSON.

Witnesses:

yW. E. SCOTT, J M. WOOD.

ting its ready removal from the button-hole."

A button hook comprising an arm, :i hookI Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Matr. 14, 1911.

extending' upward and the hand grip 11 the button-hole from the underside and the 485 arm being flattened and provided with anl 

